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Trinity United Methodist Church in Mountain View,CA 94041
748 Mercy St, Mountain View, CA

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  • We should not be posting these round-robin comments, they are confusing. WinniFred "Winnie" Smith was in SunnyVale with WilFord Smith, not in Los Altos with Carla`s husband Bob Dodd. I was an operatic soprano, like Carla, and played mezzo trumpet, violin, and other instruments. I was single, so I could have married Giles Dyer, whether we would have considered an open marriage or not. I was about 5`6, so I was about 1/3 to 1/2 a foot shorter version of Kathy Vix. I was also about midway between Carla and Olive in height, and played keyboards, guitars, and, at StanFord University, the orchestral Harp. Giles Dyer was about 5`8 or more, and sturdy.

  • Carla Dodd was the first of the co-writers of the previous post. WilFord took over when the post commented on Carla. Olive and Mike could have played contemporary, secular, English language, music, if they had acquired the right instruments for that. I lived in SunnyVale with WilFord. SunnyVale was the fictional home of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, and the horror show included a Giles who was a librarian. I`m Beverly Lebo. My sister and I might have agreed to an open marriage, if we had been asked. We are Carla and Olivie. We could have agreed to an open marriage if our husbands had agreed for us to try to seduce Giles Dyer. I`m Mike Finkbeiner, I loved my wife enough I would have agreed. I do not think I could have agreed to block an open marriage. I am Bob Dodd. I also think though I would have wanted to, I could have blocked a marriage open to Giles Dyer. We are older sister Beverly Lebo and younger sister. We would have loved to have had Giles Dyer. I`m Carole Klein, I was single, I would have loved to have had Giles Dyer, too.

  • Olive FinkBeiner and I lived in Los Altos, south of Standford University. Her husband was Michael Finkbeiner. She was tall and played orchestral harp. He was tall and played English/Anglo Horn. He played keyboards, he could have played oboe if he had had one. The Finkbeiners both played acoustic guitars. Carla was married to Robert/Bob Dodd, their sons were Chris, Randy, and Weldon. She was an operatic style soprano. I recommended Giles for a job at Philco-Ford, but after the month needed to gain security clearance, he was not hired. My wife was Winnifred Smith. I still would trust Giles with my own secrets, if I had any, and even my own life.

  • I was stunned when I found out my fiancĂ© was having sex with the man I thought was my father. We broke up, and I turned to Giles for solace. I did not know it might have been possible he might have been my first cousin. We had not been raised together, like my beautiful female cousin and I had been. Giles had moved with his parents to Mountain View before I had gotten engaged. Giles and I did not attend Trinity First United Methodist Church in Moutain View much. I did not live close to the church, Giles did not feel close to the church. I haven`t been to any church in ages. I was also shocked to learn my choir directress at Salinas First UMC, watched porn, and that it included my own mother, of all people, as a porn actress. My mom has admitted she seduced my Giles. I do not know how early she began seducing him.

  • I`m a friend of Brenda Gail, who adopted the stage name Crystal Gayle Gatzimos. I am fascinated by this CHURCH web page. I am also a friend of Loretta Webb Lynn, who finally retired last year. So I am also fascinated LaRetta Webb clearly does NOT claim to be my friend. As she has pointed out, she is an alto, Loretta a soprano, she had light brown hair, Loretta had black hair. She was raised in a very moderately well to do family, like mine. My dad worked two jobs, a dairy rancher, us living on the ranch, dad also owing a furniture store. Mom "just" a ranch house wife. I haven`t been to ANY church in ages. I`m a very high soprano, but I over worked my voice, making myself horse, maybe half the songs I sing, man hating anthems despite my loving men as human beings, as worthy of respect as women. My mom was also reasonably pretty. She and I are short, about 5`2, like bygone era, long forgotten, superstar, Julie London. Mom and I had black hair, I still do. PotLuck dinners are about once a month, folks just bring maybe a pot of food, per family, folk then hope either to eat from their own pot, or the pots of others, or both. LaRetta left out the "e" in ate, when she mentioned she and Giles might have eaten together at a potluck dinner. LaRetta does clarify while she is not sure about the potluck dinners, she and Giles walked a fair distance from the downtown parking lot, near a three level concrete parking lot, which was across the street from the county public library, which was next to the church. LaRetta`s cousin, a 5`6 blonde beauty, reminds me of my friend, Olivia, who also retired last year. I play mouth organ/french "harp", and keyboards, but do not seem to have done so on video, like my new friend, Crystal Gayle LeVant, niece of Jack Webb LeVant, star of an FBI television show, was noted in print for playing electric piano in a regarding section for perfectionist Barbra Streisand, and got the feel perfectly right for hair, but is better known for playing a variety of stringed harps, especially the orchestral harp. Giles and others have lamented my often baring only my face and hands on stage. My original name was Marie/Maria Martina Schiff, some nickname me as "Tina". I have three beloved daughters, all adults now, who sing beautifully and deserve to become superstars in perhaps my style of music, hard rock/heavy metal, at least half time, power pop, maybe the other up to half time, marketed as Country music. My not performing bluegrass/country, is why I include violin very little in the songs I perform, which Giles "ghost" writes. But since he is unpaid for his excellent work, it seems clear, he is not merely trying to avoid the spotlight, though many of the pseudonyms seem to have been written at least by someone knowing, Giles wrote my hits, as he also wrote Crystal`s, Loretta`s, Olivia`s, et cetera.

  • I met Giles Dyer at First Church United Methodists in Salinas, California. I haven`t been to First Church in ages. I may have met him when we both joined the Salinas adult choir, under Kathy Vix. I was an alto who played guitar and learned to play bass. I was 5`6, and moderately full figured. My dad worked in the subscription department of the Salinas Californian newspaper. My mom was a secretary for the Californian. Mom and I were both pretty, but she and dad were both considerably taller than me. I also had a BEAUTIFUL lady cousin, about my height, blonde. Mom and I had light brown hair, dad had black hair. I was still in high school, maybe about 17. Giles and I both at together at a church potluck dinner. After we ate, we got to know each other better. Giles and I made out in his car for hours. Giles hugged me and kissed me, and fondled my breasts. I loved it! While my mom and dad were at work at the newspaper, I called Giles to come over. He and I hoped they would be working late. My parents came home and caught us with my cousin, not yet making out because I called my mom to find out if she and dad would be working late. My mom had a talk with me. She said she thought Giles and I might be good for each other. Mom and I went to church together, so when she saw Giles when I was engaged to someone else, she urged him to try to get me back. Giles alternated on keyboards to my playing the bass, and bass to my playing the guitar. We both sang. Giles was a deep, resonate, bass vocalist. Giles was a songwriter. Ms. Vix was an operatic trained guitarist, keyboards, a former Miss California pageant and talent competition winner. Giles lived in Salinas only a few more months, but continued to visit back. Giles was a National Merit finalist who attended Salinas High while I attended North High. Giles was and is a GOOD man. My mom, cousin, and I, love him. Ms. Vix was a VERY GREAT songstress and musician. Ms. Vix returned to San Jose State University in `75/`76, for graduate music studies, and saw each other there. Sadly, she had cut her beautiful long hair short.

  • I was named, in part, after Giles Dyer`s Wesleyan Methodist mother.
    Giles told my future husband, Bill Clinton, and I, we would meet at GeorgeTown University, and suggested we look each other up. He didn`t, I did. I majored in Political Science in their Foreign Relations department, he majored in Economics there. I did not go to Wellesley or to Yale. Bill and I went on to Harvard Law School. I was a National Merit Finalist, like Giles, and in the top 5 % of my high school class, in Park Ridge, Illinois, in Cook county, in the Chicago area. I was popular, despite being a staunch conservative Republican, like my Jewish dad, and a Wesleyan United Methodist, like my mom. I eventually became a liberal Democrat like my mom. Bill left the Baptist church to pursue politics, and we married in a Wesleyan Methodist church. I was NEVER a "hippie". Giles knew my family, including my parents, my brothers, me, and my best friend, Betsy Ames. My older brother fathered Betsy Jr. I knew Giles had arranged with his friend, John FitzGerald Kennedy, for his meeting in the summer of `62, to be filmed, to help Bill in potential future career ambitions. That was after Giles` family lived in RoseVille, in `58/`62, and about when they started living in Sanger, in `62/`65. Bill and I have had our ups and downs, we are very different people, but I owe Giles very much joy for bringing us together, allowing me to conceive my beloved daughter, Chelsea.

  • Giles Dyer and I saw each other in `75/`76, when I returned to San Jose State University for graduate music studies, and other times. I had, sadly, cut my hair. I was 5`11 in bare feet, so usually wore flats. I won the Miss California title, and talent competition, like Giles` Woodland, Ca., friend, Linda Wagstaff, a fiddle picker, won the talent competition and Miss California. I was an opera trained songstress, like Giles` friend Carole Klein. Giles was a National Merit Finalist like his friend Hillary RodMan, who took after her Jewish father, initially, sadly, in being a staunch Republican, not in being a Jew. Giles`s Park Ridge, Illinois, in the Cook county area of Chicago, was a United Methodist, and her husband, Bill Clinton, left the Baptist church to marry her in a Methodist church, and pursue politics, among other things. Giles was and is a GOOD man. I loved and still love him, too. Giles` friend Hillary was NEVER a "hippie". Giles continued to visit back to Salinas, Ca., at least in `72/`74, visiting especially with the McAnaney, CrabTree, Longoria, families, and me. Giles` older brother, John Charles`, brother in law, was a major in classical piano and other keyboards in Cal. State San Jose University. I knew him. I have been divorced, and gave birth to 3 beautiful daughters while I knew Giles.

  • I taught my daughter, Elizabeth "Betsy" Ames Long Jr., not Giles, to play keyboards, though, as mentioned, we did play keyboards with him. And obviously, she was her biological father`s daughter, not his father. To the best of MY knowledge, my friend Hillary felt Wesleyan Methodist, like her mother, not Jewish, like her mother, at least until she married Bill in a Methodist church, in `75, and became the nationally accused alleged "hippie" first lady of ArKansas, in `78. My mom and I called the future Mrs. Clinton "Hillary" not Diane. My mom didn`t think I was a Jew, but I know I have claimed to be, for some reason. My mom hoped I attended the United Methodist church with my daughter, but I only remember playing the piano in the mostly deserted social hall, thanks to my mom having taught me, on Wesleyan hymns. My mom calls Giles her Giles. Lots of lovely ladies do. He was a GOOD man. She and I and my daughter loved him. My mom and I and my daughter each had affairs with our Giles. My mom was young and single and rather frisky when she had her affair with Giles. My Mom thought I worked in a Pharmacy. Mom felt my daughter and I were both sexy, so she guessed she was, too. I`ve heard Carole Klein, the graduate student majoring in music at Stanford, and she was VERY GREAT! My mom and I and my daughter agreed Karen "Carpenter" was a beautiful girl and a BEAUTIFUL songstress. All three of us wished we could have met the Classical Piano prodigy and Jazz pianist, from Yale University, Richard "Carpenter" and his drummer turned songstress little sister, Karen "Carpenter". My daughter, "Betts" Jr., is SURE we met the Carpenters, at the Circle Star Theatre in San Carlos, Ca., just a little to the north of Mountain View.

  • Hillary Rodham Clinton was Elizabeth "Betsy" Ames Long Sr.`s best friend in the Chicago area. Hillary Diana/"Diane" Rodham was a National Merit Finalist, whose father, Hugh, was a Jew, and whose mother, was a Wesleyan Methodist. "Betsy" Sr. was a Jew, but Hillary could not have been an inherited Jew, and some do not count converts as Jews. Hillary was not a convert, but felt like a Jew, though she officially wasn`t one. "Betsy" Sr.`s husband was a very staunch conservative Republican, very not staunch Lutheran, whose father was a Jew, "Betsy" Sr. was a staunch liberal Democrat. "Betsy" Sr.`s common law husband, Hugh Rodham, broke up with her because she was a nude model, but Hugh did not tell Hillary that side of her, though Hillary knew anyway about the break up, not about the nude modeling. "Betsy" Sr.`s husband, legally but not spiritually, according to her, was William Edward Long, Sr., her son, and youngest child, was William Edward Long Jr. "Betsy" Jr. attended the United Methodist church. Hugh Rodham was "Betsy" Jr.`s biological father, W. E. Long, was "Betsy" Jr.`s step-father. "Betsy" Jr. did not tell Giles she was Hugh`s biological father but "Betsy" Sr. did, because she knew he knew Hugh. "Betsy" Jr. had few regular visits with her biological father.

  • I haven`t been to Trinity UMC in ages. I met Giles Dyer at Trinity. Actually I was kind of short, not very long! My dad worked as a researcher in Computers for Nasa`s Ames Research Centre, and as a teacher at Stanford University. Mom was Elizabeth "Betsy" Ames Long Sr., a professional nude model, trained in Chemistry. I also had a little brother. Mom and I were pretty and had full figures. Giles and I met at a potluck dinner. I was still in high school. After we ate, we got to "know" each other. Giles and I made out in his car for hours, Giles hugging and kissing me, and fondling my enormous breasts. My mom and dad were away, so I called Giles. He came over, asked how long my parents and little brother would be gone. I was 17. I hugged and kissed him, but, without answering, I retreated to the other side of the small apartment, next to the sliding glass doors, so Giles sat down next to the front door, which is where he was when my parents caught us. My mom had a talk with me, told me I should have been all over a hottie like him, so she called him to come back over and coaxed me into making out with him in front of her so she could straighten me out. So mom persuaded me to hug and kiss, and so on, with Giles, which I did. Giles played keyboards, and taught me to play, but we didn`t play in church. We had an upright piano in the apartment. I was young and single and rather frisky! Mom and I were trim, but "very well endowed". We were from New Haven, Connecticut, where my Dad was a teacher at Yale. Ames Research Centre invented NetsCape, a browser, for computers. Mom didn`t go to church, but we sang in our apartment, taking turns at our piano with Giles. Giles and I also took turns at the church social hall upright piano. Giles was a song writer who played keyboards. Mom was a Lutheran, like a pretty, black haired, operatic soprano songstress, with a powerful voice, DeBra Carole Klein, a little surfer girl, and a graduate student at Stanford, who played guitars, keyboards, orchestral harp, fiddles, trumpets, etc. We lived in Mountain View only a few months, maybe about the time Karen Anne Reuwer "Carpenter" and Richard [?] Reuwer "Carpenter", had their Singles album out, in `73/`74. My mom and I and Carole all loved their soft rock music. Karen was a little surfer girl, too, and Brenda Gayle LeVant was an Orchestral Harpist from age 11, keyboardist from age 3! Brenda Gayle LeVant began working in high school for Lee Wladizu Berracci, Liberace, at 17, on orchestral harp.